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Published 19 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments

SOKULE.com, a new social media network, offers small businesses a forum that allows them to save time while marketing their brands using the popularity of social media marketing. Business owners who are committed to utilizing a smart, profitable, and streamlined social media platform are now turning to SOKULE to help them quickly meet their online marketing needs. SOKULE is a uniquely designed social media platform that operates in a similar fashion to Twitter, but includes additional ... Read More

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Published 15 Apr 2010 | No Comment

My Twitter Toolbox is a brand new site that provides members with all of the Twitter tools available on the market. The site was developed to help business owners be more effective and markedly increase their productivity with the fastest growing and most popular social networking site out there – Twitter. Months of programming and thousands of hours have gone into making My Twitter Toolbox the most powerful and comprehensive set of Twitter tools on the market. Here is some of the ... Read More

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Published 15 Apr 2010 | Comments Off

Social Media Network Analysis: Next Practices in Social Network Analysis, Tools and Media Friday 30 April 2010, 8:30am – 5:00pm Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California USA
Social media, communities and collaboration are defined by dynamic network structure. The success of social media is determined by underlying social networks. Success is not determined by technology, applications or social networking sites. Social networks are the complex, omnipresent foundation of all social media, communities and collaboration. Comprehension, visualization and optimization are critical to social media.
Social media network analysis visualizes, interprets and optimizes the …

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Published 13 Apr 2010 | Comments Off

FreeConference® application takes communication in the virtual world to the next level with audio conferencing. FreeConference provides the tools and shortcuts to schedule a conference and invite friends to join right from a user’s Facebook page.
“Once people realize that conference bridges can be used any time to bring two or more people together to talk, it opens up a new world for family and friends to gather and chat about anything,” said Ken Ford, CEO of Global Conference Partners, parent company of FreeConference. “FreeConference is not just for business discussions, …

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Published 8 Apr 2010 | Comments Off

Businesses today need every competitive edge they can find because they are competing with an ever-growing and large number of savvy internet marketers who take full advantage of all the options available to them.
Twitter is one of the fastest growing and most popular sites for social networking today and those who aren’t already using it for their businesses they should be. It can propel their sales results into a whole new level of success.
My Twitter Toolbox (MyTwitterToolbox.com) is a new site that provides literally everything needed to learn how to …

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Published 8 Apr 2010 | Comments Off

The social areas of the web continue to expand, creating new opportunities for communications professionals daily. With more than 400 million active Facebook users, 50 million tweets daily and nearly 1 million blog posts published every 24 hours, social channels harbor consumer influence and reach.
For some in the PR and marketing industry, it has been a struggle to keep up, but a one-of-a-kind solution from NewsUSA – Social Syndication – confidently answers the question of how communications professionals seeking to embrace social media should begin.
Social Syndication from NewsUSA includes content …

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Published 31 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

XibYa Groups-Explorer application greatly improves the understanding of shared interests and offers a new interaction tool with friends on Facebook. You can now view Facebook groups and pages in a revolutionary 2D map that enhances interactions.
XibYa, a developer of productivity and collaboration applications for social networking on Facebook, has launched today a new version of their successful Facebook social mapping application, Groups-Explorer, ideally designed for those wishing to explore friends’ groups and fans’ pages.
The unique Facebook app, which can be accessed from this link http://apps.facebook.com/xibya-group-explorer/ allows users to view their …

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Published 31 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

Target Latino, a multicultural and Latino consumer specialist marketing firm, has introduced a Multicultural Social Media Monitoring tool, SMX Echo, in the United States.
SMX Echo is a Multicultural Market Intelligence Solution that scans for relevant results and automatically analyzes sentiment in English, Spanish and Portuguese and has been named “a tool of choice — especially when it comes to multicultural marketing and public relations campaigns” by the Huffington Post.
“I have evaluated many well-known social media monitoring tools available and what impressed me the most about SMX Echo was its ability …

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Published 30 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

LinkedIn®, the world’s largest professional network with more than 60 million members globally, today announced the launch of the LinkedIn application for BlackBerry® smartphones at www.linkedin.com/blackberry and on BlackBerry App World™. This application complements LinkedIn’s other mobile offerings for the iPhone® and Palm Pre™ to give members more choices on how to use LinkedIn away from their offices and computers.
“With the addition of the application for BlackBerry to our broader suite of mobile applications, LinkedIn is available to more business people than any other professional network in the world,” said …

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Published 24 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, a new online community.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, a new online community where young adults living with mental health concerns can provide mutual support in navigating unique challenges and opportunities during the critical transition years from ages 18 to 25.
Developed by young adults, StrengthofUs.org is a user-driven social networking community where members can connect with peers, share personal stories, creativity and helpful resources by writing and responding to blog entries, engaging in discussion groups …

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Published 23 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies will host an interactive, worldwide discussion on social media risk management during this year’s Risk & Insurance Management Society annual conference April 26-29. Using online collective intelligence software developed by Imaginatik, individuals and business professionals around the world, along with registrants to the Boston conference, are invited to join a dialogue that aims to identify and reduce the emerging risks businesses face as a result of Web 2.0 platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and corporate blogs.
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Published 22 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

Humanity Calls invites nonprofits to participate in the eBay Earth Day Fundraising Tournament at www.humanitycalls.org. The tournament’s cash pool has been seeded with $50,000 generously donated by eBay and will grow significantly during the tournament as individual donations magnify the amount available to all winning nonprofits. At the end of the tournament, the top voted nonprofits will share proportionally in the tournament cash pool.
The eBay Earth Day Tournament is open to all nonprofits focused on the environment, including issues such as climate change, conservation, recycling, renewable energy, pollution and more. …

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Published 18 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

nDreams announced the launch of ‘Spirit of Adventure’, the first ever soap opera on Facebook. Spirit of Adventure features a rich, twisting story that will be revealed week-by-week, written by Christian Wheeler (writer of Bramwell, a period drama for ITV, and PlayStation Home’s cult cross-media game, Xi). It combines a compelling tale and strong characters with a variety of puzzles to create a unique narrative-driven Facebook experience.
“This is the first time social storytelling in this form has been delivered on Facebook,” said Patrick O’Luanaigh, CEO of nDreams. “It allows people …

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Published 17 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

Mobile social network provider Gypsii announced in March 2010 that is would launch a new application that integrates location and social networking technology with Twitter.
Known as Tweetsii, the app provides users with the ability to geo-tag tweets, add pictures and video to tweets and search tweets based on location. Tweetsii will also integrate any updates posted by Gypsii users as well as other mobile social networks such as Gowalla and FourSquare.
Tweetsii will be firstly rolled out to iPhone users, followed by Android and BlackBerry.

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Published 16 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

Twitter announced Monday that the company plans to introduce a new service called “@anywhere.” The new service will allow Twitter users to connect to their own Twitter accounts through Websites such as The New York Times and eBay, “Users will be about to follow their favorite columnist or writer directly from the publishers’ site. Facebook Connect already allows Facebook users to sign into third party website.
Twitter says “rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only to drop in a few lines of javascript” to implement the new @anywhere service.
Initial …